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In 2019, according to a new book, media executive and erstwhile Trump confidant Steve Bannon took time out of his busy schedule to sit down with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and coach him through an imaginary 60 Minutes interview Epstein believed he would soon be doing. Bannons advice: Look into the camera occasionally, dont be racist, deny youre a pedophile. Youre engaging, youre not threatening, Bannon reportedly told the sex offender at the end of the coaching session, youre natural, youre friendly, you dont look at all creepy, youre a sympathetic figure.
Thats the incendiary, previously unreported anecdote included at the end of a new book by writer Michael Wolff, author of the bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Though Bannon was an indispensable source for Wolff in Fire and Fury, Wolff wouldnt tell The New York Times Ben Smith where he got these new Epstein transcripts. Bannon, in a statement, confirmed to the Times that he recorded more than 15 hours of interviews with Epstein, though he denied that he had ever media-trained anyone. Instead, Bannon claimed, the interviews with Epstein were not for 60 Minutes but an unreleased documentary Bannon was making on the billionaires perversions and depravity.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-was-media-trainer-to-jeffrey-epstein-prior-to-arrest-according-to-michael-wolff-report-says
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I wonder who recommended Bannon to Epstein? Another wannabe pedophile?
Birds of a feather, and all that. Apologies to birds.
Midnight Writer
(21,765 posts)then my advise would be don't do the media appearance.